Strongly fillable contact 3–manifolds without Stein fillings

Ghiggini, Paolo¹

¹ CIRGET, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale 8888, succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal (Québec) H3C 3P8, Canada

Geometry & topology, Tome 9 (2005) no. 3, pp. 1677-1687.

Résumé

We use the Ozsváth–Szabó contact invariant to produce examples of strongly symplectically fillable contact 3–manifolds which are not Stein fillable.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2005.9.1677

Keywords: contact structure, symplectically fillable, Stein fillable, Ozsváth–Szabó invariant

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